The worst episodes of Foyle's War
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- 01
As Foyle returns from a stay in the USA, MI5 agents persuade him to go to their London HQ immediately.
- 02
Early 1942. American troops arrive in Britain and the Corps of Engineers building an airstrip on a Hastings farm is met with resentment.
- 03
The apparently accidental death of a young woman in a munitions factory becomes linked with the murder of Milner's estranged wife as he falls under suspicion.
- 04
April 1944: Milner is unhappy with his new DCS and has asked for a transfer, but after the DCS is killed, Foyle comes out of retirement to replace him.
- 05
October 1944: Foyle hones in on two murders: an unpopular psychiatrist in a trauma facility and a low security German POW on work release to a local farm.
- 06
The disappearance of a Foreign Office official appears to explain the deaths of a number of Russian agents working for British Intelligence.
- 07
Foyle is told by the head of MI5 that eminent art historian Professor Van Haren is actually a high-ranking Nazi whose real name is Karl Strasser.
- 08
Foyle, now working for British Intelligence, is drawn into the world of corrupt Nazi businessmen when London university professor William Knowles is found brutally murdered in a London park.
- 09
April 1941: Foyle questions three Land Army girls about a murder that occurs on a Hastings farm.
- 10
A.C. Rose orders Foyle to delegate his investigation of black marketing ring and personally look into the possibly seditious acts of a Socialist activist.
- 11
Foyle investigates the a mysterious disease affecting local farm animals and looks into the arrest of a pacifist accused of stabbing a war hero.
- 12
March 1943: Foyle has his hands full dealing with illegal gambling, sabotage, and his needy goddaughter who shows up on his doorstep with her traumatized son.
- 13
May 1945: Foyle joins a municipal committee that's preparing for the now imminent V-E Day celebration but soon finds himself investigating the deaths of two of its members.
- 14
It's June 1945 and Detective Chief Superintendent Foyle is still on duty as they are unable to find a replacement for him. He's approached by Brigadier Timothy Wilson, his former commanding officer from his own military service in World War I, who is looking for a Russian POW, Ivan Spiakov, who has escaped and is believed to have been seen in the Hastings area.
- 15
While African American GIs wait for transport home, racial tensions run high at the army base in Hastings, particularly when a black American serviceman becomes romantically involved with a white local woman.
- 16
Foyle battles to save a young man accused of high treason from the executioner's noose in a case that will shatter his personal world to the core.
- 17
The German wife of a rich and influential aristocrat exempted from wartime internment is found decapitated in the midst of anti-German feeling.
- 18
With the English army trapped in France and a German invasion imminent, a Nazi sympathizer is murdered during a pro-Facist meeting at a country hotel.
- 19
Foyle investigates the suicide of a pacifist and death threats to the judge who ruled against his conscientious objector status.
- 20
Sam volunteers to go undercover to discover how rationed gasoline is being stolen from a fuel depot, and Andrew becomes a suspect in a murder case.
- 21
When a British food corporation signs a secret agreement with the Nazis to provide essential food services to the enemy during wartime, murders result.
- 22
February 1941: When a local manor house is commandeered for use as a special burn unit for treating injured RAF pilots, Foyle is called in to investigate a series of strange accidents.
- 23
When a young student is badly assaulted, Foyle wonders if the attack is racially motivated as the young man was the son of a wealthy and high profile Jewish businessman. Sam is determined to help a young boy in Adam's constituency.
- 24
Foyle investigates a man found with a knife in his stomach in a bombed out building while son Andrew gets involved in a top secret radar program.
- 25
After Foyle is a guest at a friend's home at a dinner for an important American diplomat, a suicide victim and German agent both are discovered near the house.
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